OpenEnv: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/work-on-issue/SKILL.md

work-on-issue is a skill for Claude Code from huggingface/OpenEnv. It costs 27 tokens per session (787 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A workflow for starting work on a GitHub issue, a tracked request or bug in a software repository. It extracts requirements, creates an isolated worktree, and sets up test-driven development, where tests are written before the code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to begin focused work on an issue, identify acceptance criteria and edge cases, create a worktree, and activate a TDD workflow.
Why use it?
It turns an issue description into concrete requirements and a separated development workspace, reducing the chance of making unrelated repository changes.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; names the TodoWrite tool.

This is huggingface/OpenEnv's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on OpenEnv itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything OpenEnv configures →

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is cd .worktrees/issue-<NUMBER>-<short-description> && bash .claude/hooks/tdd-state.sh activate <NUMBER>.

About the project

OpenEnv is a framework for creating, deploying, and using isolated execution environments through simple APIs modeled on Gymnasium. It is intended for researchers and developers training agents with reinforcement learning, as well as creators who need secure environments that can be deployed and accessed through familiar protocols. The catalogue add-ons provide agent integrations and workflows for using OpenEnv.

huggingface/OpenEnv · 2,739 stars · on GitHub · huggingface.co

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to huggingface/OpenEnv. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/OpenEnv/main/.claude/skills/work-on-issue/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/huggingface/OpenEnv

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 787 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00027 $0.00787
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00315
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00157
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00079

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 12ac3d5a425d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

work-on-issue scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/skills/work-on-issue/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/work-on-issue

Start focused work on a GitHub issue using TDD workflow.

EXECUTE THESE STEPS NOW

When this skill is invoked, you MUST execute these steps immediately. Do NOT just describe what will happen - actually do it.

Step 1: Parse Issue Number

Extract the issue number from $ARGUMENTS:

  • Remove # prefix if present
  • The issue number is: $ARGUMENTS

Step 2: Spawn Issue Worker Agent

Use the Task tool to spawn the issue-worker agent:

Task tool:
  subagent_type: issue-worker
  prompt: "Read GitHub issue #<NUMBER> and extract:
    1. Goal - what the user wants to achieve
    2. Acceptance criteria - specific testable requirements
    3. Edge cases and constraints
    4. Suggested PR split if complex"

Wait for the agent to return requirements.

Step 3: Create Worktree

After receiving requirements, run this command:

.claude/scripts/worktree-create.sh issue-<NUMBER>-<short-description>

Where <short-description> is 2-3 words from the goal (e.g., add-mcp-tools).

Step 4: Activate TDD Enforcement

Activate TDD enforcement in the new worktree. This uses tdd-state.sh's direct-execution mode so it works in a single Bash call:

cd .worktrees/issue-<NUMBER>-<short-description> && bash .claude/hooks/tdd-state.sh activate <NUMBER>

This writes .tdd-session.json to the worktree root, which all hooks check. Without this step, hooks would not block direct edits.

Step 5: Create Todos

Use TodoWrite to create a todo for EACH acceptance criterion:

TodoWrite:
  todos:
    - content: "Test: <acceptance criterion 1>"
      status: pending
      activeForm: "Testing <criterion 1>"
    - content: "Test: <acceptance criterion 2>"
      status: pending
      activeForm: "Testing <criterion 2>"
    ...

Step 6: Begin TDD Cycle

Immediately invoke /write-tests for the first todo.

DO NOT stop and wait for user input. Start the TDD cycle now.


When to Use

  • Starting work on a GitHub issue
  • You want TDD enforcement (opt-in via this skill)
  • You want isolated work (no branch switching)

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 121 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 12ac3d5a425d

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work-on-issue is a skill published in the GitHub repository huggingface/OpenEnv (2,739 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 787 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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